How to Use an IronKey to Manage Passwords

Do you have hundreds of user names
and passwords that you have to remember to access your online banking, credit
cards, utility, and other websites? Using the same user name and password for
all of these sites is risky. Every day, the newspapers and online news outlets
report on compromised data, identity theft, exposure of credit card numbers by
online retailers, and of student information stored on college computers. Even
the government is not immune. If the government can't keep the hackers out,
what hope to the rest of us have?

One of the best things that an
individual can do to protect themselves and their data, while online, is to use
secure browsing and unique user names and passwords. Then the problem becomes
how to manage and access that information without keeping post-it notes under
your keyboard or some other equally insecure way of storing sensitive access
codes. There are many devices and methods to accomplish this task, from letting
the browser store the information (not recommended) to using various devices.
Whatever method or device you choose, the most useful and secure methods are
portable and encrypted. Portable devices are handy because they can follow you
anywhere. Encryption is a must-have. If the data can be read by anyone with
physical access, it has no better security than your post-it note.

Click "Auto" from the "Auto Login" column of your account row. The webpage will open and the Identity Manager will log you in to the website.Some webpages have additional security, which shows the user name, password, and hints or tokens on separate pages. While the IronKey doesn't handle all of these entries automatically, you can still use it to copy and paste user names and passwords by:

Copy and Paste Password

Step 1:

Open
"Identity Manager" from the Ironkey "Control Panel."

Step 2:

Right
click on the account you need the information from. Choose "Copy password
to clipboard" from the menu.

Copy and Paste User Name

Step 1:

Open
"Identity Manager" from the Ironkey "Control Panel."

Step 2:

Right
click on the account you need the information from. Choose "Edit Item" from
the menu.

Step 3:

Click on the icon that looks like two sheets
of paper at the end of the "Username" field to copy the user name. Right click in the user name
field on the web page. Choose "Paste" from the menu.